AWS Elastic Beanstalk PHP installation - session time out

Question

I've observed that my PHP pages in the production environment session times out but unable to figure out what determines the duration of time out.

I use AWS ElasticBeanstalk to run the PHP code.

I'd like to find out

• what is the session time set to and where is it set typically?
• how I can programmatically control the time out from the PHP layer

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If the session timeout is not explicitly set through the code, then you can check the default value set in the php.ini file for session.gc_maxlifetime which specifies the number of seconds after which data will be seen as 'garbage' and potentially cleaned up. Garbage collection may occur during session start (depending on session.gc_probability and session.gc_divisor). Defaults to 1440 (24 minutes).

References:-

session.gc_maxlifetime

PHP - How to implement session lifetimes